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Monday
"We're
still
inside
the
cone
of
death,"
O'Brien
said.
At
11
p.m.,
the
center
of
the
Category
4
storm
was
about
330
miles
east
of
San
Salvador
in
the
central
Bahamas,
or
about
700
miles
east-southeast
of
West
Palm
Beach.
It
was
moving
toward
the
west
near
14
mph.
And
it
was
still
strengthening.
Forecasters
late
Sunday
warned
that
Floyd
could
be
a
Category
5
fury
by
late
today,
with
winds
topping
155
mph.
No
hurricane
watches
were
issued
late
Sunday,
but
those
could
come
after
a
5
a.m.
advisory
today,
O'Brien
said.
Seen
from
the
windless
calm
of
outer
space,
through
the
radar-equipped
eyes
of
weather
satellites,
the
gigantic
storm
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moved
in
a
slow,
silvery
swirl
across
the
blue
Atlantic,
sluing
just
north
of
due
west
Sunday
evening
at
14
mph,
bearing
down
on
the
Bahamas
with
a
145-mph
rush
of
rain-lashed
air.
The
glow
of
sunset
flashed
briefly
across
the
smooth
curve
of
its
eastern
eyewall,
seen
from
far
above.
Nearly
as
large
as
the
entire
state
of
Florida,
the
sheer
wing-span
of
Floyd's
cloud-wracked
mass
of
winds
and
water
is
so
wide
that
areas
miles
from
the
eye
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FLOYD,
10A
By
Paul
Owers
and
Michael
Browning
Palm
Beach
Post
Staff
Writers
Looking
like
a
giant
silver
buzzsaw,
Hurricane
Floyd
continued
its
grim
march
across
the
Caribbean
on
Sunday
evening,
its
screaming
145-mph
winds
fully
as
menacing
as
those
of
Hurricane
Andrew,
which
devastated
South
Florida
in
1992.
:
"Everybody
should
be
preparing,"
said
Tricia
Wallace,
meteorologist
at
the
National
Hurricane
Center
in
Miami-Dade
County.
This
is
a
very
large,
well-defined
storm.
We're
projecting
landfall
between
Palm
Beach
and
Daytona.
But
hurricane-force
winds
extend
over
100
miles
from
the
center."
Later
Sunday,
Bill
O'Brien,
director
of
emergency
management
for
Palm
Beach
County,
said
forecast
tracks
had
the
storm's
eye
passing
near
Cape
Canaveral.
But
the
margin
of
error
of
those
forecasts
is
about
250
miles,
he
warned.
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debris
at
the
intersection
of
Georgia
Avenue
and
El
Vedado
after
being
awakened
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Sunday
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PALM
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People
accustomed
to
living
beneath
the
deafening
roar
of
jetliners
awoke
Sunday
to
a
new
and
more
threatening
menace:
airplane
parts
raining
down
on
their
homes,
yards
and
automobiles.
Hundreds
of
pieces
of
debris
from
an
engine
explosion
aboard
Continental
Airlines
Flight
1933
pelted
the
five
blocks
of
homes
under
its
flight
path.
Residents
who
joke
that
they
never
hear
punchlines
on
TV
sitcoms
because
of
airliners
screaming
overhead
didn't
find
much
to
laugh
at
Sunday.
"Any
one
of
those
pieces
could
have
hurt
someone,"
said
William
Allen,
whose
home
and
camper
truck,
at
2A
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A.
Scharnhorst
and
Dan
Moffett
Palm
Beach
Post
Staff
Writers
WEST
PALM
BEACH
Jar-ra
Gould
had
armed
herself
with
a
book
and
settled
into
window
seat
20A
for
a
three-hour
flight
to
Houston
Sunday
morning
when
she
saw
a
strange
orange
light
coming
from
one
of
the
plane's
jet
engines.
Seconds
later,
hunks
of
torn
metal
flew
by
her
window.
"I've
never
been
so
terrified
or
felt
so
close
to
death,"
said
the
Houston
resident
after
her
flight
returned
safely
to
Palm
Beach
International
Airport.
The
pilot
managed
to
maneuver
the
Boeing
737
back
to
the
runway
after
the
engine
exploded,
scattering
shrapnel
through
a
West
Palm
Beach
neighborhood.
None
of
the
84
passengers
and
five
Continental
Airlines
crew
members
was
hurt.
On
the
ground,
people
reported
only
minor
injuries,
most
from
scrambling
away
from
what
they
thought
were
gunshots
but
really
were
falling
engine
pieces
ranging
in
size
from
200
pounds
LANNIS
WATERSStaff
Photographer
Officials
look
at
the
damaged
engine
on
Continental
Flight
1933
after
it
was
safely
returned
to
the
airport.
None
of
the
passengers
or
crew
was
injured.
SECTIONS
B,
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to
a
dime.
Continental
Flight
1933
took
off
on
time,
at
7
a.m.,
and
was
.
climbing
steadily
to
the
east
when
the
engine
caught
fire
and
blew
apart,
officials
said.
Federal
investigators
were
on
the
scene
Sunday,
but
said
they
would
be
unable
to
determine
a
cause
for
weeks.
Initial
reports
from
the
airport
control
tower
and
fire-rescue
workers,
however,
indicated
that
a
bird
was
to
blame.
"At
that
time
in
the
morning,
the
black
crows
and
seagulls
head
over
to
the
dump
on
45th
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thought
someone
was
shooting
out
my
windows!"
Leon's
daughter,
Zaida
Leon,
was
on
the
phone
to
Cuba
when
the
noise
began.
"I
said,
'Oh
my!
I
think
Fidel
Castro
is
coming
to
get
us!'
"
Nearby,
Erlinda
Chamor-ro
said
she
was
washing
her
Please
see
DEBRIS,
12A
the
corner
of
El
Vedado
and
Lake
Avenue,
were
showered
with
metal
from
the
airliner.
A
big
chunk
dented
his
truck's
roof
and
cracked
the
windshield.
"I
was
very
nervous,"
said
Modesta
Leon,
who
was
in
her
house
at
Lake
Avenue
and
Hillcrest
Boulevard
when
the
engine
blew.
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